Leadership - love it or hate it?

So you think you are a leader? Perhaps you want to be a leader? Or do you hate the concept of leadership? I think many confuse leadership with power. We see people who have the power to make decisions that effect our lives and we see them make choices we disagree with. We see people leading countries that justifying killing people. However, how about we look at leadership from another angle.

A question for you. Do you want to be free to express yourself? Do you want to fully accept and be at peace with all of who you are? Take a moment to remember a moment when felt at peace. If you have never felt that, take a moment to continue doing exactly what you are doing.

You know a leader when you see one because it has nothing to do with power. Real leaders are often not in positions of power, and some of the people who are in positions of power got there because they inspired other people with their leadership. In my experience, true leaders are those people who are totally at home with themselves and all of their humanity. They are not trying to be something they are not, Authenticity, or true self expression is attractive to us because their peace has the effect of bringing us home to ourselves somehow. They are usually very funny because they are light hearted about themselves and their humanity. True leaders inspires us to accept who we really are because they are fully themselves, and when you are fully yourself you are free. When you are fully yourself you do not feel the need to change other people to make you feel better because you realise that other people are not the source of your happiness. They shine a light within us and give us access to our own brilliance by being connected to their own brilliance. Real Leaders are open hearted and not threatened by others. They do not propagate hate, self sacrifice now for some apparent reward later - real leaders give us access to the best in ourselves.

Whatever your opinion of the word Leadership, consider that when you are profoundly connected and inspired by all of who YOU, and you life is a reflection of this, you inspire others. So be true to you. Let go of trying to be what you think other people want you to be and let yourself be brilliant in whatever way inspires you.